Vaccines

Question 1

What type of vaccine is a BCG vaccine?

Answer 1

Live attenuated

Question 2

What type of vaccine is an MMR vaccine?

Answer 2

Live attenuated

Question 3

What type of vaccine is a polio vaccine?

Answer 3

Live attenuated

Question 4

What type of vaccine is a varicella vaccine?

Answer 4

Live attenuated

Question 5

What type of vaccine is an influenza vaccine?

Answer 5

Inactivated

Question 6

What type of vaccine is a diptheria vaccine?

Answer 6

Toxoid

Question 7

What type of vaccine is a tetanus vaccine?

Answer 7

Toxoid

Question 8

What kind of microbe is polio?

Answer 8

An RNA virus

Question 9

What is the difference between an attenuated and inactivated vaccine?

Answer 9

An inactivated vaccine is a dead microbe (killed by heat/radiation/chemical), whereas an attenuated vaccine is still alive but the pathogenic part of the vaccine has been removed. Inactivated vaccines are less effective than attenuated vaccines and often requires a booster (i.e. rabies)

Question 10

What is a toxoid vaccine?

Answer 10

A vaccine that uses an inactivated toxin of the microbe i.e. tetanus/diptheria

Question 11

What kind of infection is diptheria?

Answer 11

Diptheria is a bacterial infection